Home page of
Tom Banks
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Home page of Tom Banks |
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| Position: | Faculty |
| Research group: | High Energy Theory |
| Email address: | banks@physics.rutgers.edu |
| Telephone: | (732) 445-3731, 5-2783 secretary, 5-4993 fax |
| Office: | Serin E368 |
| Mailing address: | Tom Banks NHETC Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 136 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA |
I work on nonperturbative formulations of M-theory, the still to be found framework which incorporates all known perturbative string theories. Partial progress in the construction of M-theory was achieved in work of my collaborators and myself in 1996, and describes the theory in terms of quantum systems whose variables are matrices. I have recently been working on the relation between the cosmological constant and supersymmetry breaking. I made a new proposal connecting the two which has profound implications both for the fundamental principles of the theory and for low energy supersymmetric phenomenology.
Revised December 15, 2000